In regard to the information request by Leland Hamner about the Columbian Institute, I recently ran across an article about it and its successor, the Pelham Institute, in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, 1897-1898, Vol. II, pp. 60-66. According to the opening of the article, which was written by Levin Vinson Rosser, who attended it (as did my great grandfather, Joe B. Eddins and a number of his children), the Columbian Institute was located at Taylorville, "four and a half miles south of the county seat, at the forks of the Greensboro and Centreville public roads. Here, on the east side and some two hundred yards from the former road, and immediately on the north side of the latter, is a shady grove,mostly of forest oaks, and gently sloping southward to the road. This formed the front lawn and study-ground." The article goes on to describe the layout of the Institute. It closes with a list of attendees, admittedly imperfect. Hamners listed as attending the Columbian Institute are: Sam, Jack, Pickens, and Henley Those Hamners attending its successor, Pelham Institute, are: Sam, John, Lizzie, Mary and Mattie Hope this helps. Mary Anne Price Researching in Tuscaloosa: Darden, Eddins, Blocker, Miller, Sartain